An IMBD "review". SPOLIERS, OPEN AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!

The film starts with Naru out wandering around with her dog. The dog gets its tail stuck in a bear trap and Naru uses her medical knowledge, which consists of a bag of mysterious herbs she carries, to help the dog. Because of course she has medical knowledge. That's when she sees the predator ship make the clouds look all weird along with some lights in the sky. She takes it as a sign that she is finally ready to be a hunter.

In her Comanche tribe she is told by everyone that because she is a girl she can't be a hunter! But she insists that she wants to be one solely because no one thinks she can. Very authentic so far. We meet her mom who serves as an exposition dump character, explaining the film's theme with the subtlety of a sledge hammer, which is that you hunt to survive. Then we meet her mystical and magical native American brother. Magic Indians. Very respectful so far. Then we get some filler scenes of the tribe doing their daily routines. And at one point it gets explained that for a tribe member to become a hunter they have to track and kill a large animal. That's all it takes. We are quickly introduced to some other members of the tribe, but they are all so forgettable you can't tell them apart. Not one of them can act either, which doesn't help matters. Then a party of the young men have to go out and find a companion that was attacked by a big CGI puma. I can't remember how they know this companion was attacked, or how they knew by what, but that is how this movie goes. Stuff just happens, and people just know things whenever it is convenient for the plot to have stuff happen and for characters to know about it. Naru convinces them to let her come along, because the plot needs her to be there. We are then treated to one of the most absurd scenes in the history of cinema: Naru's brother kills the cartoon puma. Does he do it with stealth and hunting skill? No he does not; he faces off with the puma and fights it... IN A TREE!! In a scene so inundated with poor CGI it makes The Scorpion King look like Blade Runner 2049. No hyperbole, this scene is so stupid I can't believe someone wrote it, filmed it, and left it in the movie. While all this is going on we are cutting back and forth to short scenes of the predator. In yet another absurd scene we are treated to an on the nose montage of the food chain in action, because we wouldn't know this movie was about hunting by the title and the fact that it's the 87th movie in the franchise. We literally follow an ant, that gets killed by a mouse, that gets killed by a snake, which gets killed by the predator. This is such a huge moment for the predator it takes the snake's head. You won't believe this but hours later Naru finds the decapitated snake and, I kid you not, it tries to attack her. Thats not enough to drive home the theme of the movie though so we get this scene played out again, but it's with a rabbit killed by a wolf.

The wolf then tries to fight the predator like the snake did, and the predator kills the wolf and takes its head, again. Then Naru builds a rope out of tree bark and weeds because of course she can do that. She uses it to tether her tomahawk to herself because that is a thing that people do with hatchets. I wonder if it will come in handy later. Then Naru is attacked by a cartoon bear rendered in CGI from 1998. Just as she's about to be killed by it, the predator saves her. Why does the predator save her? Don't know. It just shows up and kills the bear, because reasons.

Then she finds a bunch of skinned buffalo that were killed by... French hunters?! Anyway, the predator starts hunting the Comanche, who get killed in an explosion of CGI blood and guts. Remember the first time you saw Predator and were kinda miffed when a character you liked got killed? That doesn't happen here because the characters are wooden, disposable and interchangeable. I didn't know who was just killed and I really didn't care, and the awful CGI blood guarantees the kills aren't even cool. The predator kills basically everyone except Naru because she was caught in a bear trap. This is really a thing that happens. The plot finally needs the french hunters to arrive in the film and they take her captive. Luckily for the plot, her brother is already their hostage. The Frenchmen, who aren't memorable characters either, set up a trap for the predator by using Naru and her brother as bait. This is the foggy scene in the woods from the trailer. The predator sneaks up on the Frenchmen and kills them with more CGI from 1998, then goes to where Naru and her brother whose name I forgot already and kills the rest of the frenchmen there, but it let's Naru and her brother escape. Why does it let them escape? Don't know. They catch up with a surviving Frenchman who had his foot cut off and Naru agrees to heal him with her magic herbs, for real, in exchange for giving her the gun from Predator 2 and showing her how to use it. You remember the gun from Predator 2.